The Cybertip.ca Respect Yourself Website is designed to teach teens about the risks they face when sending pictures or videos by email, instant messaging or posting them on line. For more information regarding the Respect Yourself site, click here.

What can you do?

There are many actions parents/guardians can take to help protect their children/adolescents from online sexual exploitation - in fact, the safety of children/adolescents depends on parents/guardians taking a proactive approach.

The following sections detail ways that parents/guardians can help keep children safe. Select one the buttons below for more details.

 
Immediate Steps
What about Adolescents?
Checkpoints
Anti-virus Software
Filtering Tools
Hardware Tools
 

What about Adolescents?

It's common for parents to struggle with the appropriate level of involvement in their adolescent's online activity. Parents often struggle with the question of how to balance their adolescent's need for privacy with their parental job to provide protection. Adolescents often resist parental involvement and questions, and will quickly utter the classic phrase, "It's none of your business!" Rest assured: IT IS YOUR BUSINESS. (more)

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